A collection of punk memorabilia belonging to Joe Corre, the son of Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, is burnt on a boat on the River Thames on Nov. 26Reuters

Punk was consigned to the funeral pyre of history Saturday, in a hardcore and blazing send-off just offshore of the city of its birth.

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Joe Corre — the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and designer Vivienne Westwood — put $6.5 million worth of his dad’s punk memorabilia in a boat and lit it on fire, all to make a point.

Corre told the crowd at the River Thames that “punk was never, never meant to be nostalgic — and you can’t learn how to be one at a Museum of London workshop.”

Corre had said he was livid that the 40th anniversary of punk was being commemorated in a series of commercial and cultural events called “Punk London.”

The Sex Pistols’ debut single was released on Nov. 26, 1976.

“Punk has become another marketing tool to sell you something you don’t need: the illusion of an alternative choice. Conformity in another uniform,” he complained.